"Cottingham Stone" - 6 grams

Historical Meteorites

In 1869 - a small shower of stones fell near Uppsala, Sweden ranging in size from a few grams up to 1.8 kilograms

Date: 11/23/09

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Uppsala, Sweden

In Hessle near Uppsala - one stone missed a man by only a few meters making this a witnessed fall

Date: 11/23/09

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1869 - Hessle - fragment

Our small fragment of the 20 kilograms that has been recovered of this historic fall is classified as an H5 chondrite

Date: 11/23/09

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1870 - Ibbenbüren - Germany

A two and one-half pound stone fell on June 17, 1870 creating a small two and one-half foot deep crater

Date: 03/25/09

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Ibbenbüren

Another great place for a meteorite to park - the luscious countyside of Germany - now with energy producing windmills!

Date: 03/25/09

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1870 - Ibbenbüren fragment

This small sample is greyish white and it does not show any metallic iron - it has a nice yellow crystalline look - classified as a Diogenite

Date: 03/25/09

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1821 - Juvinas - France

This meteorite obviously had the right idea about a beautiful place to make a landing - it fell on June 15, 1821 at 3:00 pm near the village of Libonnes

Date: 03/25/09

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1821 - Juvinas - Top View

The first time I looked at this up close I thought I had picked up one of my shergottite meteorite samples by mistake - but it is really an achondrite - eucrite (AEUC)

Date: 01/01/00

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Juvinas - Bottom View

A great looking sample of a well preserved meteorite - even more amazing is that only a single stone of 91 kilograms fell - almost half of Juvinas is lost and most of the rest is in the Paris Natural History Museum - classified as a EUC member

Date: 01/01/00

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Krasnoyarskiy kray in Russia

In 1749, about 145 miles south of Krasnojarsk, a meteorite was found that weighed about 700 kilograms - it was seen by Peter Simon Pallas in 1772 and then transported to Krasnojarsk

Date: 07/10/09

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Krasnojarsk Meteorite at the Museum of Natural History in New York

The Krasnojarsk Meteorite is considered the first pallasite ever studied and the first meteorite ever etched

Date: 07/10/09

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1749 - Krasnoyarsk - Fragment

Our tiny fragment has been classified as a pallasite belonging to the main chemical group - but with anomalous properties

Date: 07/10/09

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Loir-et-Cher, France

The Lancé meteorite was witnessed to fall on July 23, 1872 in Vendome, Loir-et-Cher, France

Date: 03/25/09

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Lancé Meteorite

A very early photo of the main mass!

Date: 03/25/09

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1872 - Lancé - fragment

Our small slice is classified as a rare carbonaceous chondrite and as a C03.4

Date: 01/01/00

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Loire Valley

The French countryside is full of old and historic castles

Date: 09/24/10

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Chateau d'Amboise

A great tourist attraction to stop and visit if you are ever hunting meteorites in France!

Date: 09/24/10

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Lancé - .197 grams

We recently obtained this bigger piece of this historical meteorite - it is big enough to show the rich interior and various inclusions

Date: 09/24/10

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Oberösterreich, Austria

On November 20, 1768 a 19 kilogram meteorite landed in Oberösterreich, Austria near the little village of Mauerkirchen

Date: 09/25/09

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1768 - Woodcut of the Mauerkirchen fall

Chladni documented the Mauerkirchen fall in 1803 in the Annals of Physics, Volume 15 - he quotes from a letter which states that the stone made a hole 2 1/2 feet deep and 6 inches wide and that the stone weighed 38 pounds

Date: 09/25/09

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1768 - Mauerkirchen - .010 grams

Our small piece of this famous historical stone has been classified as an L6 ordinary chondrite